I think that it would wind up being like that legendary attempt to write an English-to-Russian translator.   The test was to feed an English sentence in, translate it, then translate it back, and see what you get.   At the time, so the legend goes, this is what happened:

(Google Translate has gotten a lot better since then.)

There is likely to be too much contextual, semantic information surrounding a real-world PHP program, especially an older one whose logic is interspersed within an HTML page, to make the result of “automatic” translation attempt pragmatically useful.   A small piece, say an editor macro to translate the format of, say, a hash from one language to the other, might be slightly helpful to some.

In reply to Re: Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Has anyone attempted to create a PHP to Perl converter? by taint

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